Improvement in stove-platforms



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S to v e P I atfo r m L N0. 59,659 Patenfed Feb.9,1875.

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UNITED STATES WILLIAM EVANS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN STOVE-PLATFORMS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 159,659, dated February 9, 1875; application filed January 20, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM EVANS, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and in the State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stove-Platforms; and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangement of a stoveboard or stove-platform, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the annexed drawing, Figure 1 is a perspective viewof my stove-platform. Fig. 2 is a bottom View of the same 5 and Fig. 3 is a section thereof through the line w as, Fig. 2.

My stove-platform consists of a wooden platform, A, let into and supported by a frame, B, and two cross-bars, G O, underneath, and it may be made of any desired size and of any suitable shape, round, oval, square, or polygonal. The frame-work thus constructed is covered with zinc D, the edges of which are turned down over the edges of the wooden frame-work. Moldings G G are then fastened around the edges of the platform by nails, brads, screws, or other suitable fastenings a, which pass through the zinc into the frame, thus fastening the whole firmly together.

Aside from the improved appearance of a stove-platform provided with moldings around its edges, said moldings are of great advantage in the manufacture thereof.

Heretofore the zinc has almost always been turned under at the bottom, which requires more material and takes a great deal of time to do properly. Furthermore, if the zinc should become worn or torn on the edges, the platform could not be easily repaired.

With my invention the zinc is simply turned down over the edges, and any imperfections in the zinc at the edges are concealed by the moldings. If any molding should be injured it can easily be taken off and another piece put on. And in many cases the moldings, being of wood, would only need sandpapering and oil- 1n g again.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

4 The combination, of the wood. platform and frame A B with understays G G, the zinc covering D, with its edges bent downward, and the wooden molding G, secured by nails or screws a, which pass through the wooden molding, bent edges of the zinc, and into the part B, all substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 26th day of December, 1874.

WILLIAM EVANS.

Witnesses:

HUGH MoMANUs, GEORGE MITCHELL. 

